Top 32: Bo Tang VS Ryad Hamwi

September 2nd, 2012

Last year, Bo Tang was the highest-ranked Canadian finisher in the 2011 North American World Champioship Qualifier, and represented Canada at the World Championship. This weekend, he’s made the Top 32 with Dino Rabbit. His opponent is Ryad Hamwi, who’s competing in the Top 32 with the retro pick of the weekend, Synchrocentric! Hamwi Summoned Thunder King Rai-Oh and Set a spell or trap.Tang had a hand of Maxx “C”; Sangan; ForbiddenLance; DimensionalPrison; BottomlessTrapHole; and StarlightRoad. He Set Dimensional Prison.Hamwi attacked with Thunder King Rai-Oh, and Tang banished it with DimensionalPrison. Hamwi Set a monster.Tang drew RescueRabbit and Summoned it, banishing it to Special Summon two copies of Kabazauls. He Xyz Summoned EvolzarDolkka, then attacked into DimensionalPrison. Tang Chained ForbiddenLance, and the attack connected with SnowmanEater: Dolkka negated SnowmanEater’s effect, detaching an Xyz Material to destroy it after taking a bit of damage.Hamwi Set another monster.Tang drew PotofAvarice and Summoned Sangan, attacking with Dolkka to reveal Hamwi’s SpiritReaper. Hamwi Set a monster.Tang drew CompulsoryEvacuationDevice and attacked over Spore. He Set Compulsory.Hamwi Set a monster.Tang drew Tour Guide from the Underworld! He Summoned her, then Special Summoned his second copy to Xyz Summon LeviairtheSeaDragon. He detached a Tour Guide from it, trying to Special Summon RescueRabbit, but Hamwi Chained EffectVeiler’s ability. Tang Chained Dolkka’s effect to negate the Veiler, then banished Rabbit to Special Summon two Sabersaurus. He stacked them for PhotonPapilloperative; used its ability to blow away SpiritReaper; and attacked Hamwi’s remaining Set monster with Dolkka. It was Dandylion, and Hamwi Special Summoned two FluffTokens! PhotonPapilloperative and Leviair each attacked a Token, and Sangan made a direct attack.Hamwi Summoned his own Sangan next turn, then banished Dandylion for Spore’s effect: Tang Chained the effect of Maxx “C”, and drew a card when Spore was Special Summoned. Hamwi Synchro Summoned BlackRoseDragon (Tang drew another card), and when he tried to use its effect Tang Chained StarlightRoad, Special Summoning StardustDragon! Hamwi searched his Deck for SpiritReaper, then Set one card to his back row.Tang drew SnowmanEater, holding MysticalSpaceTyphoon; PotofAvarice; and Thunder King Rai-Oh. He activated MysticalSpaceTyphoon and Hamwi conceded the first Duel.Bo Tang takes Duel 1, hitting RescueRabbit on turn 2 and bringing it back with Tour Guide from the Underworld and LeviairtheSeaDragon on turn 5 to lock up the winl! Tang was just one win away from the Top 16!Hamwi Set a card to his Spell and Trap Card Zone.This time around, Tang had a hand of DimensionalPrison; CompulsoryEvacuationDevice; ForbiddenLance; DarkHole; TourGuidefromtheUnderworld; and Sabersaurus. He Summoned Sabersaurus and got in a direct attack for 1900 Battle Damage. Tang Set Prison and Compulsory, and Hamwi activated Scapegoat in Tang’s End Phase.Hamwi activated MysticalSpaceTyphoon, targeting CompulsoryEvacuationDevice, which Tang Chained to eliminate one of Hamwi’s SheepTokens. Hamwi Summoned LonefireBlossom, and Tributed it for Spore. He Tuned Spore to a SheepToken for FormulaSynchron, drawing a card and then banishing LonefireBlossom to Special Summon Spore back to the field at Level 4. He Tuned Spore to another SheepToken, this time for T.G. Hyper Librarian! He Tuned it to FormulaSynchron for ArcaniteMagician in Defense Position, removing two Spell Counters to destroy DimensionalPrison, then Sabersaurus. Tang drew Torrential Tribute and Set it.Hamwi Summoned CardTrooper, and sent DebrisDragon, MessengerofPeace, and RebornTengu to his Graveyard to boost it up. Trooper attacked for 1900 Battle Damage.Tang drew Sangan and Summoned it, then attacked over CardTrooper: Hamwi drew a card for its effect.Hamwi banished FormulaSynchron and Hyper Librarian from his Graveyard to Special Summon Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning, and Tang cleared the field with TorrentialTribute! He got RescueRabbit with his Sangan’s effect, but Hamwi activated Pot of Avarice to send back every monster from his Graveyard save ArcaniteMagician. Hamwi drew two cards, then Normal Summoned SpiritReaper to attack and make Tang discard the RescueRabbit he’d searched! Hamwi activated MessengerofPeace.Tang drew another Thunder King Rai-Oh and Summoned it, then Set Dark Hole and Lance.Hamwi paid 100 Life Points to keep MessengerofPeace on the field, then tried to destroy Thunder King Rai-Oh with SoulTaker. Tang saved his monster by activating ForbiddenLance. Hamwi Set a monster, then Set a Spell or Trap.Tang drew Maxx “C”. He Summoned Tour Guide from the Underworld; used her effect to Special Summon another Tour Guide; and Xyz Summoned Wind-Up Zenmaines in Defense Position.Hamwi decided not to pay for Meassenger. He Flip Summoned Dandylion, and stacked it with Reaper to Xyz Summon LeviairtheSeaDragon. He detached Dandylion, and Tang Chained the effect of Maxx “C”! He drew SnowmanEater when Hamwi Special Summoned back his LonefireBlossom with Leviair’s effect, and drew MonsterReborn when Hamwi Summoned his FluffTokens. Hamwi Normal Summoned Thunder King Rai-Oh, and attacked Tang’s to destroy both. Tang drew Kabazauls and activated MonsterReborn to Special Summon RescueRabbit in Defense Position. He banished it to Special Summon two Kabazauls from his Deck, and when they hit play Hamwi Special Summoned back his Thunder King with Call of the Haunted. “That’s a good card,” laughed Tang, who was now limited in his Xyz Summoning options. He attacked LonefireBlossom and a FluffToken with the Kabazauls, then tried to Xyz Summon EvolzarLaggia in Main Phase 2: Hamwi negated the Summon with Thunder King Rai-Oh. Tang Set SnowmanEater.Hamwi Summoned DebrisDragon, Special Summoning Dandylion! He Tuned them together with the last FluffToken for ScrapDragon, and blew away his own Call of the Haunted and Tang’s Dark Hole with the Dragon’s effect. MonsterReborn got him back his LonefireBlossom, and he sent it to the Graveyard to Special Summon Spore from his Deck. He attacked Tang’s SnowmanEater with ScrapDragon, and Tang used its effect to destroy Leviair! Tang drew Pot of Avarice and activated it right away, sending two Kabazauls; Maxx “C”; Sabersaurus; and Thunder King Rai-Oh back to his Deck. He drew MindControl and DimensionalPrison. He Summoned Kabazauls and rammed Zenmaines into ScrapDragon, detaching a Tour Guide to keep Zenmaines from being destroyed. Kabazauls then attacked over Spore. Tang Set a Spell or Trap, then destroyed ScrapDragon in the End Phase.Hamwi drew to three cards in hand, with two FluffTokens still on the field. He Normal Summoned DebrisDragon to Special Summon Dandylion again, this time bringing out StardustDragon! He Special Summoned two more FluffTokens, then Set a spell or trap.Tang drew SolemnJudgment and attacked two FluffTokens, then Set Judgment and MindControl.Hamwi attacked with StardustDragon; Tang flipped DimensionalPrison; Hamwi Chained SolemnJudgment; and Tang Chained a Judgment of his own! StardustDragon was banished. Hamwi Set a monster and a spell or trap.Tang drew HeavyStorm and attacked turned Zenmaines to Defense Position. Kabazauls attacked the last FluffToken.Hamwi Set a second spell or trap.Tang drew D.D. Crow. He activated MindControl to take Hamwi’s Sangan, then flipped HeavyStorm: Hamwi immediately gave the handshake!Bo Tang moves on, taking Dino Rabbit to the Top 16!